The Next Phase

Contrary to rumor, B-to-B e-commerce is
showing surprising signs of life

By

Michael Totty

Updated May 21, 2001 12:01 a.m. ET

It turns out there are second acts in e-commerce.

It's been little more than a year since Internet experts, stunned by the wave of failing online retailers, began predicting that the real future of e-commerce lay in the trillions of dollars spent annually in B-to-B trade.